RODECaster Pro to add multitrack recording

• The RØDECaster Pro, an audio mixer for podcasters, is adding a multitrack recording option in a new firmware update for all users, the company has announced. It’ll record 14 tracks from the unit simultaneously, and will be available from the 'advanced’ settings in the unit’s touch interface. The 1.1.0 firmware update that enables it will be available to download next month.

  
  Aug 9 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Set your calendars: the results of Triton Digital and Edison Research’s 2019 US Infinite Dial survey will be live online on Wednesday, March 6, at 2pm ET. It contains lots of data about US audio consumption. You can join the webinar here.

• Adam Carolla has extended his contract with PodcastOne for a further five years.

  
  Aug 9 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

• Only you, the creator, gets to decide what is, or what isn’t, audio fiction, says Alba Salix's Sean Howard. In an impassioned blog, he writes:

We have allowed a vocal few to shun so many nascent creators into silence or embarrassed reluctance to participate in meetups or cons. All from simply using a form of storytelling that someone didn’t find appropriate or having the gall to declare their live play a piece of audio fiction.

Get the free Podnews newsletter for more like this

Get it free

This is bullshit. If it’s audio and it’s fictional, then it is audio fiction. And you have just as much right to feel pride in what you have created as any other audio creator.

The final straw for me was when I saw it harming creators at PodCon2. Beautiful and talented artists were uncertain if they qualified to attend an audio drama event. Or they were afraid to pitch their show because it might not qualify as a piece of audio fiction.

… you should read the rest.

• Jordan Harbinger has been interviewed in depth by Podchaser.

Aug 9 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.

Podcasts

Awkward S#x and the City - the podcast is a podcast version of the touring storytelling show Awkward S#x and the City, making its special blend of earnest and often shocking honesty available to the world.

Russia Rising launches on Monday. The seven-part original investigative series, led by Global News’ Jeff Semple, takes listeners inside Putin’s Russia to unravel its mysterious evolution from tenuous ally to potential global threat.

Conviction is a new true crime series from Gimlet, featuring a new piece of investigative reporting each season. The first season follows the developing case of Pedro Hernandez. All seven episodes are released on Monday, February 4th.